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精品文档 精品文档 精细；挑选; 精细；挑选; 2018嘉定区高考英语二模 2018 ?4 Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Stephen Hawking: Science s Brightest Star His family released a stateme nt in the early hours of Wedn esday morni ng con firm ing his death at his home in Cambridge. Hawking shildren, Lucy, Robert and Tim, said in a statement: “ Weare deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scie ntist and an extraord inary man (21) work and legacy will live on for many years. ” For fellow scientists and loved ones, it was Hawking sntuition and wicked sense of humor marked him out as much as the fierce intellect that, coupled with his illness, came to symbolize unboun ded possibilities of the huma n mind. Hawking was driven to Wagner, but not the bottle, when he (24) (diagnose) with motor neurone disease in 1963 at the age of 21. Doctors expected him (25) (live) for only two more years. But Hawk ing had a form of the disease that progressed more slowly tha n usual. He survived for more tha n half a cen tury. Hawk ing once estimated he worked only 1,000 hours duri ng his three un dergraduate years at Oxford. In his fin als, he came close (26) a first- and sec on d-class degree. (27) (convince) that he was see n as a difficult stude nt, he told his exam iners that if they gave him a first he would move to Cambridge to pursue his phD. Award a sec ond and he threate ned to stay. They opted for a first. Those who live in the shadow of death are often those who live most. For Hawking, the early diag no sis of his term inal disease, and (28) (wit ness) the death from leukemia of a boy he knew in hospital, aroused a fresh sense of purpose. “ (29) there was a cloud hanging over my future, I found, to my surprise, that I was enjoying life in the present more than before. I began to make progress with my research, ” he once said. Taking up his career in earnest, he declared: “ My goal is simple. It is a c un dersta nding of the uni verse, why it is (30) it is and wh y it exists